American Sentinel

As General David Petraeus comes home for a Senate summer grilling on the Iraq war, it is worth remembering what occurred the last time this American hero appeared before Congress. We had a front page ad, “General Betray Us?”, appear in the New York Times, given a sweetheart rate that makes Obama’s mortgage seem ‘on [...]

American Thinker has an interesting piece today by Kyle-Anne Shriver-Could 2008 be a McCain Landslide? The scenario wouldn’t be surprising at all.
Obama keeps making mistakes. Nobody really knows where he stands because of his nearly constant shifting of positions. At least with McCain, he’s been around long enough where we can trust he is who [...]

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook
In every Conservative family, we have Liberal-leaning family members whom we love very much. It seems the hardest issue to confront with these dear ones is the environment.
How do you explain to your rock-repelling, trout fishing, river-rafting, brewmaster little brother, who is just the greatest ever, that the polar bears [...]

This is called going out on a conservative limb. With all the backlash against illegal immigration, a lot of negativity has spilled over onto legal immigration (historically, we’ve never really liked legal immigration that much either, often railing against the Irish or Italians, for instance). Personally, I’m with McCain on this one. People need to [...]

A coalition of military groups is planning a nationally televised townhall-style meeting with the presidential candidates near Fort Hood, TX which is the largest active-duty military installation in this country. Only Senator John McCain has agreed to attend.
CBS agreed to broadcast the meeting live from 9 to 11 p.m. ET on Monday, August 11th. The [...]

The Green Party plans to get on the ballot in between 36 and 40 states.  The stated goal for the election, from various sources, is to reach 5% of the popular vote so that they will be declared a legitimate 3rd party and won’t have to battle every election to get on the ballots in [...]

John McCain’s Weekly Radio Address:
Good morning. I’m John McCain, and this week I’ve been on the road in Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I’ve been holding town hall meetings to talk over the subject on most everyone’s minds these days — our slowing economy.
More than 400,000 Americans have lost their jobs since December, [...]